Cancer in Australia: an overview 2014 presents the latest available information on national population screening programs, cancer incidence, hospitalisations, survival, prevalence and mortality. It is estimated that the most commonly diagnosed cancers in 2014 will be prostate cancer, colorectal cancer and breast cancer (excluding basal and squamous cell carcinoma of the skin, as these cancers are not notifiable diseases in Australia).

ISSN: 1039-3307

ISBN: 978-1-74249-677-1

Cat. no: CAN 88

Pages: 218

Findings from this report:

Five-year survival from all cancers combined increased from 46% in 1982–1986 to 67% in 2007–2011

Between 1982 and 2014, the number of new cancer cases diagnosed more than doubled —from 47,417 to 123,920

In 2014, an estimated 123,920 Australians will be diagnosed with cancer

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Mortality projections presented in this report have recently been revised using more recent data and are presented in the report Cancer mortality trends and projections: 2014 to 2025. In the process of updating the projections, changes have been made to the underlying models used in this report. Readers should therefore use the relevant mortality projections presented in the Cancer mortality trends and projections: 2014 to 2025 report instead.